{"id":118406,"date":"2009-12-31T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-4864327223246177359"},"modified":"2009-12-31T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:01:00","slug":"photo-for-today-essam-and-nasr-siwa-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/118406","title":{"rendered":"Photo for Today:  Essam and Nasr, Siwa 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/SzlHJ10-0iI\/AAAAAAAAJ_I\/unNByX5qSGo\/s1600-h\/IMG_4075a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/SzlHJ10-0iI\/AAAAAAAAJ_I\/unNByX5qSGo\/s400\/IMG_4075a.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420441860910797346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Bonfires are not permitted in the desert areas with local wood because<br \/>insects and animals depend upon them.  So you either take your own wood<br \/>or you wait until you are on the edges of civilization before you light one.<br \/>In this case we were on the outskirts of Siwa oasis and the drivers had gone into town<br \/>to replenish our supplies.  They were donated a dead tree by a local shopkeeper<br \/>and they hauled this back to camp trailing along the ground, attached to the<br \/>kitchen car.  It lasted for hours and hours and was a lovely end to the<br \/>desert camping,  The next five nights back to Cairo via Siwa, Bahariya<br \/>and the Faiyum were spent in hotels.<br \/>We all missed the desert but &#8211; oh how I loved those showers!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-4864327223246177359?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonfires are not permitted in the desert areas with local wood becauseinsects and animals depend upon them. So you either take your own woodor you wait until you are on the edges of civilization before you light one.In this case we were on the outskirts of Siwa oasis and the drivers had gone into townto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}